That depends who you are logged in as. If you are root, then it don't matter. If you are a user...well, then you can not do much of maintenance work, have to be root for that. Your system is not read-only. If it were, you'd not be able to save anything. Nor would the system itself (log files, etc.) To make sure check out your /etc/fstab and see which flags are given to /. Should be rw Andrew
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